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Sunday April 22, 2007

11:00 am -
12:00 pm
Innovation Working Groups (Phase I)
World Congress Innovation Working Groups are multi-disciplinary and cross-sector discussion forums to brainstorm on innovations necessary for a range of current industry challenges. A group leader will guide the discussion to generate ideas, debate and develop a consensus around new innovations that deserve further investigation. Leaders from each Innovation Working Group will report findings on Wednesday, April 24 just prior to the first keynote.
  1. Employer Innovations Group - Benefit Design
  2. Health Plan Innovations Group - Consumerism
  3. Provider Innovations Group - Patient-Centered Care
  4. Provider Interest Group - Medicare Payment
  5. Topic TBD
1:05 pm -
1:45 pm
Opening Keynote Address: The World’s Top 10 Diseases - Impacts and Actions for the Developed and Developing World
Tadataka Yamada, MD
President, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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2:00 pm -
5:15 pm
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By-Invitation-Only Summits
5:30 pm -
6:30 pm
Keynote Address: Competition in Health Care - Challenging Incentives and Market Dynamics
Sponsored by:
    
Moderator
John K. Iglehart
Founding Editor, Health Affairs;
National Correspondent, New England Journal of Medicine

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Michael E. Porter
Bishop William Lawrence University
Professor
Harvard Business School

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Reactor Panel
Ronald A. Williams
CEO and President
Aetna Inc.

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George C. Halvorson
Chairman and CEO
Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals

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6:45 pm -
7:15 pm
Executive Discussion Series
  1. Quality
  2. Access
  3. Cost-Effectiveness
  4. Transparency
  5. Chronic Care
  6. Leadership
  7. Medicare
  8. Consumerism
  9. Health IT
  10. Benefit Design
7:30 pm
Invitational Dinner on Lean Six Sigma
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7:30 pm
Invitational Dinner on Consumer-Driven Health Care
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7:30 pm -
9:30 pm
Invitational Dinners
  • Invitational Dinner on Pay-for-Performance
  • Invitational Dinner on Advances in Medicare
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